Love me a cliff hanger but wow those were some loose ends!The only real mystery solved was the mystery of what Claire named her baby. Anyone else think that the noise made when Lostzilla grabbed Locke and was dragging him sounded a lot like one of those metal drain snakes that plumbers use? No? Just me, huh? At that point all I could think was "oh good god, it's the Iron Giant after all!".

The only real mystery solved was the mystery of what Claire named her baby.

really? so is it Erin or Aaron?

on the subject of names, i want to go to the website and look at the full names of all the characters. i think there are clues there. maybe it's just the John Locke thing...but i think the names may mean something.

Originally posted by Mercury in retrograde:on the subject of names, i want to go to the website and look at the full names of all the characters. i think there are clues there. maybe it's just the John Locke thing...but i think the names may mean something.

Yeah! I saw somewhere that the name Aaron has to do with Exodus which was the title of the finale. I'm going to try to find it again.

i knew with a little looking i'd find that someone else did all the hard work...from The Lost Forum:

Character's ties to real people..Using Wikipedia as my main source of knowledge I found out about a couple of semi famous real people who shared the character's names. It might not have much relevance but it's fun anways. I left out John Locke cause I'm pretty sure everyone knows about him by now.

Jack Sheppard (sp) (1702-16 November 1724) was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th century London. He was as renowned for his crimes as he was for various attempts to escape justice. His repeated arrests were part of the downfall of the notorious "Thief Taker General" (and thief), Jonathan Wild.

Kate Ryan (b. July 22, 1980) is a Belgian singer/songwriter who gained international prominence with a cover of Mylène Farmer's "Desenchantee," Her latest album, Stronger, was released in 2004 and was her first album released in the United States.

Hugo Reyes (Hurley) is a games developer. There is a Jorge Reyes who is a Columbian musician.

J-Kwon (Jin) is a rapper (hehe) who had the hit single tipsy last year.

Homer St. Clair Pace (born April 13, 1879, died 1942) was one of the founders of Pace University along with his brother Charles Ashford Pace. He was born in born in Rehoboth, Ohio.

Walt Lloyd is a cinematographer worked on such films as Spanglish, The Perfect Storm.

Michael Dawson is a soccer player over here plays for Tottenham.

The famous explorer Daniel Boone's last resting place was Carlisle. He claimed he once killed a Yahoo, a hairy giant.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (Danielle the crazy French lady) (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. His theories are set against those of John Locke, the philosopher.

Originally posted by Mercury in retrograde: i feel like the exploded science teacher's name is probably an anagram too...haven't had time to play with any of it yet tho...

I bet you're right, they certainly kept making a big deal out of his name. I read that there is nothing random going on in the show even if it seems random.

I wonder what the relevance is of Watership Down, and also, what the deal is with the eye shots. What does it mean to those who have had eyeshots and those who haven't? And how strange that the baby should get one so early and quickly.

Also, there's this Oceanic Air Website, under travellers if you enter Hurley's numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) It takes you to a seating chart. If you click those numbers from there, they show you a little "season 2 preview" which isn't spoilery but sounds like a hint. Also if you go down and hit one seat for every row green seats light up that do stuff too. I think there are other things I haven't figured out yet too.

Originally posted by Mercury in retrograde:as far as Watership Down goes...well...they are rather like little bunnies running from potential doom, aren't they...? heh.

I've been thinking that the Watership Down parallels are pretty significant for some time now. The book, on the surface, is the story of a group of rabbits who are forced from their home by real estate development. They are forced to create a new society in their warren.

In the book, there is a character named Fiver (a bunny, of course- they're all bunnies) that has a gift. He's a young rabbit that has premonitions and can forsee danger in the warren. Just like Walt.

A group of the rabbits decide to venture out and leave the island...errr.. warren. They are led by Fiver's big brother. Like Michael led the raft adventure. Interstingly, all of the rabbits who leave to make their own new society are male and they realize that the society will not last without female rabbits to mate with. Hmmm... shades of Lost season 2??

Anyway, it goes on from there with other similarities to some of the Lost subplots and characters.

- There is a rabbit who is an expert tracker like Locke.

-There is a debate among the characers as to whether moving the warren is better than staying put. Seen on Lost first in the beach vs caves debate then in the raft vs wait for rescue debate.

- The book is told from the point of view of different rabbits at different times.